Are You Smarter Than Shlomo? - Jewish HaShkafa (126)

starting a new week and we're continuing the series of the Jewish asfa where uh you're going to learn a little bit more about Jewish ideology especially for those of us that are uh new to the world of tah that uh whether you're new B cha or perhaps you're a new convert or converting to Judaism and you're really trying to get a better hold of the Torah or better yet for those people that have uh chosen to live a life that is not full of Torah but they're interested in the tah but they just can't get their head around the uh fundamentals of Judaism uh the basic principles of faith and most importantly the laws of the tah because when they hear certain things that don't agree with their uh modern day ideology they uh uh easily say this must be wrong this must be uh you know long no longer applicable and so on and so forth tonight's you is going to be for the for and all of and all the righteous no that continue to watch our shim and support and help us reach more and more people around 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different perspective uh for uh for everyone because once a person knows where they stand uh it makes it easier to make a decision meaning that if a person let's say walks into a uh business of some kind or some office that has to do with archaeology or science or uh all types of other technology all types of other subjects and uh he sees that the place is full of geniuses full of people that are experts in their field full of people that have uh you know have a lot of expertise and experience they've uh been doing this for a very long time but yet they uh they choose to do things the way they do it they choose to do things at the place that they do it then it makes it easier for a person to make a decision this is usually why when uh High sales uh types of companies are looking to hire people uh when uh they are recruiting people especially people that uh are superstars from other companies and they're trying to poach another business one of the main things that uh they like to show is the success of the people that are there uh that are in this uh new business that uh you know this one made this much money this one bought this house this one has this car and if he did all of this here this means that perhaps you can do the same thing here and uh it is there is an element of Truth to that to a certain extent uh of course it requires the person to uh uh have uh the same footsteps uh as these other people but the point being is is that when a person knows that there is already success there is already experience there is already a track record at the place uh that uh he's looking into it makes it easier for that person to make a decision the same concept goes here as schl was full of wisdom but what kind of wisdom did he have how is it relevant to us today uh and this is one of the things we're going to see now the Kish has brought us all types of uh uh Geniuses from our sages throughout this uh series and tonight tonight he's going to bring us the ramban but also the words of schl himself and he starts off with the ramban manad which lived about 750 years ago and he's the one that wrote thees that we're doing a series on Tuesday nights about Jewish intimacy uh and this uh this ramban he is not just a genius not just holy he's one of the few sages in Judaism that literally covered every single topic in the Torah he wrote books about everything he wrote Al books he he wrote commentary on the entire Torah he wrote commentary on the entire uh on the uh he wrote a cabala he wrote about the musar literally he wrote everything even anti- missionary one of the most famous anti-missionary uh displays in history was the uh debate that the ramban was uh forced to be in uh in Barcelona and anyone that wants to uh uh know all of the extraordinary answers that the ramban uh provided to win the debate in Barcelona in front of of the uh the king at the time and uh the church and pretty much all of the who's who of that time can read the debate in Barcelona by the ramban which was also added to the new edition of the G KES uh that uh that was recently published by our dear friend rovman the great 26th generation descendant of the ramban so anyway the ramban is starting off by letting us know about a book that existed at the time where he learned about schl aside from the mid aside from the aside from the tanak uh he there is another book that existed at the time uh and he says the ran says in the beginning of his commentary on the Torah he writes I saw a translated book called the great wisdom of and in this book he says it says the following there is no king or ruler that came from a different type of birth all people enter the world in the same way and they exit also in the same way and therefore I prayed and he meaning Hashem gave me a spirit of wisdom and I learned and the spirit of knowledge came to me I preferred it to the scepter and the throne here the ramban is telling us what schl in essence schl King Solomon's personal Journal of his experience receiving the gift of all gifts from of the wisdom and he says that he already knew that uh you know there are different types of kings that am is has had and will have in the future uh but no King will be like him no King will be like him and the reason why is because of the wisdom that gave him and one of the reasons and the ultimate reason reason of why schl received this gift as the book of Kings one says schl preferred the wisdom over the uh Power and money that other kings preferred and he says I preferred this wisdom over the scepter in the throne and it further continues saying God is the one who gives knowledge this by the way anyone that is familiar with this this uh particular few words this is both something that you'll find in the Book of Proverbs that Hashem gives knowledge but also something that you read uh usually as a prayer before you start studying uh uh God is the one who gives knowledge that is free of falsehood to know how the world was established here is in essence telling us something that is of Paramount value because the world today has more information readily available for people than any other time in history with a click of a button a person can either find information or create information they could find information on the uh internet by uh doing thorough research uh or they could literally create information by uh simply either you know uh uh going on artificial intelligence one of these AI applications uh that are famous and uh simply decide to create a story just tell the AI to create a story about uh you know a group of kids that decided to go to uh play uh in the uh in the yard and write you a poem about it too and the AI could literally draft up this whole thing in a matter of seconds uh and you could literally create a whole book of any type that you want uh within a matter of moments but the one thing that you don't have with either one of those sources whether you're finding the information on the internet that already exist that some journalist or some writer or some blogger wrote or you're creating the information the one guarantee you do not have is whether this information is true and in the world of Journalism I don't have to spend any time to uh prove the fact that the journalists have been proven to be full of falsehood especially especially in recent years uh where they write one thing and they uh mean another the government says one thing but they really mean another the truth is on the right the falsehood is on the left vice versa all of the nonsense that's out there as literally destroyed the uh perception of media altogether over the last several years but more than anything else even if a person themselves means well and they decide that they're going to write a uh you know a bunch of uh information they're going to use research they're going to use research that they're going to find somewhere on the internet they're going to tell you certain things even though their information relies you know is in essence quoting certain research there's no guarantee that the research is actually true a few uh examples that are relevant and very very uh uh um unfortunate uh that I can give you is for example many uh people believe that uh especially because of the many writers I mean if you simply look at it on Google this information is still readily available where people believe that uh the uh you know if you're going to uh try to have children at the uh age of 38 40 42 44 you're running the risk of having deformed babies uh and this is based on so-called research the the problem with this research and especially the people that say that you can't have babies anymore uh at that age is the fact that it's relying on Research that is quoted everywhere but very few people actually delve into it and seeing where is the original root of This research which is the fact that the original research that everyone is basing it on is research that was done in the 1600s meaning 400 years ago 400 years ago and they're basing it on Research that was done in a small community about 400 years ago uh of a uh you know just a uh small segment of people where they figured oh if they're 40 they're not having any more babies that means they have problems having kids or they had some kids that were deformed and therefore forever more anyone that is going to try to have children at that age is bound to failure or bound to problems now this obviously couldn't be further from the truth as we know firsthand quite a few examples of women that hasem not only uh got married at a later age in life for different reasons but also had children uh at a later stage in life we actually even have somebody that we know that just had I think it was their 16th or 17th child and uh the woman was in her late 50s or I think even early 60s uh I don't ask people their age but I know that they were quite old uh as far as according to science So This research is uh what most people live off of meaning me people make their life's decisions based on this so-called research if you ask the average person you know uh you know the uh the reason why they're not having kids anymore many times you'll hear oh well listen I'm too old what do you mean you're too old you're only 42 years old you're only 44 years old yeah well you know I don't want to have a kid that's autistic I don't want to have a kid that has a missing note I don't want to have a kit who said you're going to have it oh science where' you read it it's on the internet and if it's on the internet it must be true so of course this is complete nonsense and uh when a person lives life without God they're bound to live a life full of nonsense so it's important for a person to know that these types of uh these types of uh things are everywhere it's not just with this particular study this is with a lot of different things another thing that uh the uh the public schools and universities suffer from especially uh you know in recent years is their perspect uh perspective of uh intimacy sexuality the so-called sexual Revolution uh that took place about 80 years ago uh where a study came out by by a uh so-called Alfred Kinsey uh that told people that uh everything that uh you are um afraid of or you're uh you know you're staying away from really is being done behind closed doors you know everyone commits adultery everyone is pedophile everyone is a you know a uh uh lgbtq everyone is promiscuous and this had so much influence so much influence on society this book by Alfred kiny he actually came out with two books uh one for the man and one for the woman one to destroy the perspective of all men and wanted to destroy the perspective of all women for the next 80 years this had such groundbreaking impact on the world that it literally went into the education system so much so that until this day the information quoted from his book is in the textbooks in public schools is in the law of America uh where uh many of the uh um punishments that uh that were used to be given to rapists and pedophiles and all types of sexual criminals were minimized because one of the government officials that read this report said well if we don't lower the uh the uh the penalties for all of these behaviors we're practically going to put 95% of Americans in prison why because according to Professor Kinsey everyone is a pervert promiscuous deformed mentality type a person and this has grown drastically the pornography industry spearheaded from this as one of of the uh uh major uh uh students of uh Kinsey's reports were the founders of the uh uh Playboy uh uh uh pornography uh magazine and uh you know despicable institution uh and uh in fact one of the uh main things that people don't realize is that before kin's report in 1948 America was a relatively conservative country with conservative values where many men and women remained reserved until marriage but this all changed after 1948 when this came out and even the government the government of America took the initiative to say how important this report is and how they have to change the law of America because if they don't technically they'll have to put 95% of Americans in prison because everyone is an adulter everyone is lgbtq everyone is uh you know is a pedophile and what they don't realize is that the entire report was based on flawed studies many of which were made against the law not only the law of the land but the law of man where he literally went to different prison cells and interviewed different pedophiles uh asking them their experience with children he even had extensive interviews documented by one of the biggest monsters of the time which is which was a pedophile that was part of the Nazi Germany uh who uh uh raped and uh tormented and and and murdered hundreds among hundreds of children not only because of his perversion and his demented mentality but also because he wanted to contribute to Kinsey's report the during the nurg trials when this monster was being uh was you know was on trial and they were reading his documents and they're seeing Kinsey's name everywhere in his letters the judge himself said it looks like you were trying to cater to kiny almost like he was you know guiding you and the monster says exactly he was the one that was guiding me he told me to go do more he told me to go to go rape more more Jewish kids and more little ones and more infants and more this now this is public knowledge this is not like a rumor there are books written by different experts one of the uh leading experts is a uh uh Jewish Professor that uh she really uh spearheaded this uh this extensive uh exposure of uh of kin but even after she exposed him and has written a half a dozen or so books uh about this still unfortunately the material is going to be in the textbooks in the law of America and not only that it's in England it's in China it's all over the world the the degradation of morality that has happened in society over the last 80 years was spearheaded by this flawed research based on pedophiles murderers and rapists and different types of people that Kinsey forced were there were employees of him or volunteers that he forced them to actually do these things behind Clos doors to society but in his in his Attic in his house and he himself was lgbtq but he HD it because he was married with kids the point being is is that if a person is now writing a so-called sexual education book today they're basing their research without a shadow of a doubt on the Kinsey reports if you are in the field of sexuality a very large part of your predisposition is based on this report on these books so of course anyone that's aware of this is going to say wait well if you wrote your book your thesis your whole course in college or or grad school based on this Monster's report then not only is he a monster you are a monster just like him and the point being is is that when a person looks at information they assume it's right because they either lack the ability to get more you know more valid information or they simply trust the source because it has a few acronyms after the name or it has certain popularity or notoriety this is not like the Torah and that's in essence one of the things that schl is telling us here is that A's information is the only information that that's in the Tor that is not one that you need to question is not one that is going to be comprised of Lies where will you find the lies in religion you will find it in all of the offshoots and all of the offshoots of Judaism if you stick to the sources you stick to the Mas the tradition that we've had for the last several thousand years whether it's the written Torah the oral the Mish the which is also called the talm the the like the the r the ran the the different great sages among all of the different Traditions the all of these different things you'll see that at some point or another every single one of them was put up to the test by great sages that were experts in their field that spend their life making sure that the information at hand is valid and there are certainly times in thear that you will find that there is a change of uh of lingo of spelling or even terminology that is used by different sages for a specific lines and the sages don't run away from this they say listen this is what we have on our uh Vila Edition but there are there is a sage like the G me VNA or some of the other sages that were mentioned that have a different version where theirs has a few different words meaning that we're not going to say listen this is the only one that's right and that's say take it as final no if there is a different addition if there is a different terminology different words anywhere else it's noted in there meaning that everything is put up to the test everything is has a Truth uh truth meter to it and you don't have to look everywhere to hope that you are actually going to find the truth when it comes to the tah you're going to find the truth because there are literally countless sages countless ages throughout the generations that have put everything up to the truth test especially people people that you know are are are delving into the T their whole life they're going to want to make sure that everything that they're saying everything that they're writing everything that they're thinking is in the level of truth and not something that is in falsehood on the other hand in the offsuit of Judaism whether you're going to go to the the Heretics among Judaism which is let's say the kites or the reform uh the conservative the uh the so-called modernizers of Judaism you'll find endless amount of falsehood and you could easily find where that falsehood began if you look far enough where you'll see over here they changed things it was true until this point and that's when they changed things whether it was reform that started a new about 200 years ago or was the conservative that uh that did it slightly after uh you know and unfortunately the uh the other Heretics out there that have uh tried to change Judaism and they'll still doing it until this day but they're not the only ones you also had Christianity and Islam as offshoots of Judaism to a certain extent where they are saying that the uh old testament which is our tah is the truth it was the truth it is the truth until they started until they started meaning that if you ask the Christians you know you go keep going back backtracking all the way to the beginning before Yos came to the world what was the truth in the world because there were only two options there was idol worship and there was Judaism what was the truth until this point they'll tell you it was Judaism tell you was the toah they tell you was the sages that was the truth but when we got the false Testament that's when everything changed the law changed Yos changed and everything became a freefor all same concept with Islam what was the truth until 1400 years ago when little Muhammad decided to lie to the world and tell him that an angel spoke to him what happened what was the truth until then they'll tell you the uh the Torah was the truth even the Quran itself says that the people of the book possess the truth if there's ever a mistake that you find in the Quran go to the people of the book meaning go to the Jews they're the ones that possess the truth but now that the is here they're saying okay let's uh you know now we have the truth so the point is is that when you see all of these different arguments every time you go back to the original you're always going to see that no one has ever said that the Torah is fake in the beginning they only started saying things like that only started challenging the tah after the fact when they had an agenda but the reality is the same Torah that was true then is the same Torah that we have now and it's the same truth that was then is the same truth that we have now where will you find the falsehood everywhere else everywhere else all of the different offshoots all of the different branches that of mutations that came out of the Torah because people did not want to abide by the law and they wanted to in essence create a new law a new law that gives them a nation a new law that gives them a money-making opportunity a new law that gives them control over people and all types of other things so SCH starts off by letting us know that he is very well aware that everyone comes into the world the same way everyone leaves the same way there is no virgin birth there is nobody that uh is a not going to die unless it's specified in the T like which was an except ction generally speaking we're talking about everyone leaves the world everyone comes into the world but one thing that he is uh uh discovered that is the truth of all truth that is the one that decides how much knowledge you're going to possess you can decide how much effort you put into acquiring the knowledge but hasem will decide how much knowledge you'll actually end up having and one of the main things that you can rely on on when the information is coming from is that it's going to be free of falsehood furthermore the book The Great wisdom of schl says to know how the world was established and the actions of the zodiac signs the beginning and the end the average times of the zodiac and the orders of the stars and movements the nature of domestic animals and The Temper of the Beast the strength of the wind the thoughts of man the relationship of the trees and the powers of the roots all the hidden and the revealed things I knew see here is in essence telling us the extraordinary level of wisdom that he was gifted by a it didn't bother schl that he didn't know how to make money like his nextdoor neighbor it didn't bother schl to know how to make a YouTube channel it didn't bother schl to know how to make everyone like me how to be charismatic how to have no it didn't boother what did bothered him what bothered him is how the world Works how the world Works different movements of the Stars why this star has a certain shape versus a different star why this star has a certain impact on the world while the different has less impact imp why this one has an impact on the world at this time while another one has impact on the world in a different way at a different time so schl was bothered by things that the average person out there doesn't even think of and here schl is telling us he was bothered by all of this and he wanted to know he wanted to know the nature of the domestic animals The Temper of the Beast why why do I need to know why do I need to know about all of these because teach us that when created men he took the a piece of every one of the animals and he put it into a this is why for example you'll have some animals they'll only eat grass they'll eat straw that's what they're going to eat some animals they're going to eat meat some animals are going to eat different types of things in the ocean some animals will only eat things from the land mankind on the other hand consumes everything mankind consumes milk like some animals mankind consumes meat like some animals mankind consumes vegetables and trees and grass like some animals they'll tell you they're vegetarian but perhaps in hiding they may not be but the key is that mankind consumes everything just like all of the animals combined so schl wanted to know why why is this animal eat this why does he eat grass now if you tell a man listen from now on you have to be a vegetarian why because it's a uh bad for your health to eat the meat okay fine bad for the health high blood pressure diabetes all types of horrible things that happen to people of course all decreed byh and the man says fine I won't eat mean anymore one day passes two day pass three days pass he's sick and tired of this grass he goes back to the doctor he says hey Doc listen you're telling me that I have to lose weight you're telling me that I have to eat grass but listen I thought about it the cow also eats grass but it's still fat so what's the say that if I eat all this grass that all these salads and everything that uh I'm going to lose weight well listen sir you're right uh no one really ever put it that way but you know the cow has a different digestive system it has multiple stomachs and it has this and has that and needs a okay fine he goes back home and he goes back to eating the grass the vegetables the the whatever he's e eating over there he's suffering he hates it he can't wait to eat a piece of steak and one day he does now on the other hand if you tell the cow listen cow you from now on you have to eat meat the cow look at you funny tell you moo moo give me the grass give me the straw no no no you have to eat meat no meat I don't have the tools for meat okay fine let's try different customer you got a lion the says the lion is a meat eater the lion he's a meat eater you put some straw in front of the lion tell listen Mr lion I know you're the king of the jungle and all that good stuff but here you're in a zoo so you're King of Nothing you're you're going to eat whatever we tell you so we're not giving you any more meat we're going to give you grass we're going to give you the same food like the cow we're trying to save money what's going to happen Lion's not going to eat and if you don't feed him eventually he'll die why the lion is a meat eater so schl was asking why is it that if you tell men don't eat meat eat vegetables eat grass eat all of these other things it's not really interesting he wants to eat other things even the ones that you know do all of these diets to preserve their health to maintain Health to to to uh to improve their health whatever it is at some point or another they still crave meat now it perhaps it can get to a point where they get so used to eating grass that they feel like a you know like the this is the best thing and this is all they want but nonetheless the initial phase is difficult they want to eat meat they want to eat poultry they want to eat something with flesh but the animal on the other hand if you go to the cow you tell eat meat says no I'm not interested in meat why isn't the cow interested in meat the man likes it so much you go to the line tell them eat straw not interested not in vegetables not in fruits give me some dead animals and I'm happy in fact even even if they're alive I'm happy in fact next time you come I'm going to eat you I want meat I don't want uh vegetables I'm not going to diet why why is the lion only willing to eat this wanted to know this he wanted to know how the world operates why why this why that why that's what SCH wanted to know and that he says all of the Hidden and all of the revealed information out there was revealed to me meaning he knew why he knew why furthermore he also wanted to know the relationship between the trees what relationship between the trees did you ever notice that if there is is two living trees or even a thousand living trees and they're growing right next to each other no one will hurt the other where they're going to grow and their leaves are not going to hit each other even though they'll be really close they won't hit each other but if you have a tree growing next to a house that's made out of wood the tree could literally grow through the house why it's a dead tree the house is a dead tree there's no respect for dead trees but if it's a living tree got to respect him he has his space I have my space the says that's because the trees are alive and even scientists in the last couple of decades have confirmed this it's there's a famous book called The The Secret Life of plants which we brought in previous lectures in the past about Torah and Science and so on interesting book they even found the uh uh proof of different things that the SES said about The Secret Life Of The Sea where they literally saw how the seed of a person of a man that leaves his body is in essence connected to the source where when the person comes into the room the seed that came out of his body goes crazy as if they're looking forward to seeing their father proving what the rambam said 800 years ago about how there is literally a life in the seed that when a man waste seed they're the equivalent of committing murder so now schl says I want to know the secrets about the trees I want to know the secrets about the trees their relationships the power of their Roots schl found out all of the Hidden and the secrets all of the Hidden and the revealed information about trees so much so that he knew the root of every single tree of where it connects to Jerusalem and he was able to grow every type of tree in Jerusalem he knew the soil that it needed he knew where exactly it was in Jerusalem the of one of theim thousand years ago he writes that the different geonim different sages at the time they knew that there was a language spoken between the trees not in the same level as the sages of the gar the tanim that literally some of them knew how to speak to different species animals birds and so on but they had a different way of communicating how so said they would actually tie different bed sheets like fabric on the uh branches of the trees and they would see that the branches move in such a way where it Flaps in a certain way at different times and another tree flaps at a certain times and they knew they were communicating and they knew what this actually meant now perhaps you can conduct a similar study today but all you're going to see is you know the the bed sheet moving perhaps bed sheet not moving perhaps but either way you're not going to know what to do with that information the G of a thousand years ago knew what to do with this information knew further as the says in that when a tree dies someone chops off a tree it screams so loud that the scream is heard at the other side of the world and the reason why man is not prived to that sound is because you wouldn't be able to live life if you actually heard everything that's going on around you the same thing happens with everything else everything has a life recently a group of Israeli scientists uh discovered that there's the same type of reaction in fruits when you cut a tomato potato or or all types of vegetables and uh and fruits there's a certain sound wave that comes from them if you are in the right frequency so there is a life in everything that's out there knew this the hidden and the revealed in the book of Kings 1 in chapter 10: 21 and 22 the Kaz says and all of schlomo's drinking vessels were made of gold for scho had ships of tarish on the sea together with the sheeps ofam was another king which we'll talk about in a moment he had ships schl had ships and he partnered up with this where once every three years the ships of tarish would come back be burying gold they were full of gold and thean says that once in three years the ships from Africa arrived be ing gold bringing this gold to schl today we know that gold mines of schl in Africa where he mined the gold and today one needs to have much practical knowledge in order to extract gold from Africa schl had such vast wisdom that he didn't need the equipment of the miners of today anyone that's familiar with the business of mining it's a very uh heavy investment investment intensive business where you have to aside from searching the world for different places in different countries where not only do you have permission to mine there but there actually something you find it takes years to confirm that this particular place has the resources that you're looking for because if you're a metal Miner but you find something else it's of no use to you you can sell it but it's not good for your investors because your investors will betting on the fact that you're going to find gold or copper or silver or whatever other uh uh resource you're looking for if you're looking for oil but you found gold great you found gold but we don't need gold we're an oil company so each and sometimes they find nothing or sometimes they find that it's just simply too difficult to mine in this particular piece of land because of the way that the land is structured so it's an extraordinary amount of investment made into the discovery into the discovery of these different fields these different places of land in the ocean to find the resources and even after you do all of the preliminary studies in order to have some type of educated guess of how much resource is there then they have to assess how much it would cost to take out every ounce of gold every ounce of silver every uh everything that you want to take out of it every gallon of uh uh of oil whatever it is that you're taking out of the field they have to do a preliminary study of the actual uh Place itself and how difficult it is to mine there and then after you've assessed it you also have to assess how much do you think is there how much do you think is actually in this place meaning if it cost you uh you know uh uh $400 an ounce to mine gold and gold now is2 2,000 you're going to get investors to invest in you why it's a big profit okay so it's going to take you know 10 years 15 years to get this gold out of there but if you assume that the price of gold will stay where it is at the 2,000 level during that time you're going to invest in there the problem is that gold doesn't stay exactly where it is it goes up it goes down it crashes it spikes up and that's why many times when you see these major spikes or crashes in the prices of of different Commodities many companies go bankrupt why because when they made the assessment they made the assessment it's going to cost $400 and they're going to make ,600 but the the price crashed it went down to a th000 it went down to a th and they're figuring this thousand may be it it may even go lower so now the profit is only 600 is it still worth it to mind for the 100 you're going to say yeah of course it is because you're thinking in a regular consumer's brain the reality is they're thinking from an investment perspective there could be cheaper ways to do it could be new technology could be new ways could be different better Fields uh could be simply not worth it to mine until the price uh goes back up and just leave this uh this uh field uh this place dormant for the next five or 10 years until prices stabilize and perhaps even the mining costs go lower this type of assessment and much more extensive than what I just explained has to go into every single place that's going to mine whether it be gold copper oil or anything else now schl he did the same type of money mining but without all of that why because since he had this overwhelming Divine wisdom gifted to him he was not only able to tell you where there is gold he was able to give you the exact point of where the gold is so you didn't have to search you just simply had to find the point he told you follow the map exactly he would tell you exactly how much gold is there and how much you can get out of there within how much time and how much resources needed to be spent and therefore the ships with come on a regular basis like an Amazon delivery every 3 years they would come full of gold trust me when I tell you anyone that's familiar with the mining world is going to start looking for schl books right now and try to say wait where where is it did he disclose what's the secret because here you're talking about literally hundreds of billions of dollars that are spent today on something that SCH simply knew knew the in brought by the Kish in page 44A shows of a another extraordinary level of wisdom not by scho by rather by his father David David the says wore a Golden Crown on his head that was extraordinarily heavy it weighed a k and it did not weigh on his head though even though this Crown if you lifted it it would be very very heavy needless to say if you put it on somebody's head it's very heavy you can't wear something that's very heavy the way that David structured everything it didn't weigh on his head it was practically levitating in the air but on his head it did not wear in his head because it had a magnet in it and Rashi about 900 years ago explains that the magnet had the characteristics of pulling upwards so being attached to the crown it would pull it upwards and it was planned so that its pulling ability equal that of A Kar of gold so that the crown did not float above David's head nor did it weigh on it and the tosot explains that the magnet was a fixed to the ceiling of the room directly about above the Royal Throne of David and it would attract the crown so that it wouldn't weigh on David's head but was also balanced that it wouldn't lift the crown up and according to all the explanations it is one of the wonders of nature see here we see that schl was not the only one that was blessed with extraordinary wisdom his father David also had wisdom well above the norm needless to say even the norm of geniuses to have a crown that's very heavy anybody can do it just get some money go to somebody that knows how to make crowns an expert in the field and it'll make you the heaviest Crown if you want you can make you a crown that's 500b if you want but to make a crown that's going to levitate in such a way where as heavy as it was theid is not going to feel it he's not going to feel the weight that not only requires a special expertise in crowns that requires a special expertise in metals and also special expertise in architecture because the um the whole building had to be structured in such a fashion that wherever David went the crown was in essence pulled up just enough with just enough precise pressure that it's still on his head but he doesn't feel the pressure no one in the world can do such a thing today no one in the world can do such a thing today and this is wisdom by David so the nature of all animals the extraordinary wisdom of the plants and the trees Metals mining we see that this wisdom wasn't just Torah like people would think they had wisdom of the ways of the world and the reality is is that if you delve into anything in the world and how it is you will always see that all of it stems to the will of God all of it stems to the Torah if you ask question of why far enough times you're always going to eventually arrive at AEM for example if you say listen there's a chair why does the chair have four legs why did chair have four legs well it has four legs because it needs balance why does it need balance because if it has less than these uh four legs it's going to be uh it's not going to have as much balance even if you put it on three legs it's certainly not going to have as much balance as uh as the uh four legs and if it's two it's not going to have balance at all and it's no longer a chair put some wheels on it and becomes a bicycle but certainly not a chair but why do you need balance well that's because there's a gravity and the gravity is going to pull you well why does gravity pull you well that's because of the magnetic field in in the world and then how the world is structured why is the world that way in so many words the more you ask why the sooner you will arrive at the conclusion which is this is the will of God in the world of science you're going to arrive what we don't know we don't know you say okay why is the chair chairs we know as four legs because it needs balance why do you need four legs because of gravity fine why does it gravity because of whatever science explanation they're going to give you fine why is this particular scientific explanation you have the way it is because of some other scientific explanation fine why is that scientific explanation that way we don't know what we don't know why is the world rotating this way why is the Sun that way why is the uh atmosphere this way why is the solar system that way why why why we don't know the answer in the world of Torah is we know this is the will of God this is the will of God in regards to everything you'll eventually arrive at the same conclusion this is the will of God in the world of science you'll arrive at a conclusion of we don't know same concept of people that want to be atheists the reason why I say want to be atheists is because no atheist is really sure about his own beliefs hence the reason why he continues disputing it he continues fighting for it he continues trying to prove it he continues trying to debate it if you possess the truth you don't need to prove anything to anyone but the atheist will continue now if you ask the athe where did everything come from oh well we came from uh monkeys fine where do the monkeys come from oh the monkeys came from the lizards fine where did the lizards come from well the lizards they came from the fish no problem where did the fish come from well the fish came from uh some uh some amoeba no problem where did the amoeba come from the amiba came from some cell that went through a process of meiosis fine where did the amiba or the cell come from we don't know what do you mean you don't know well actually we do know there was an explosion and the explosion okay fine what exploded what exactly exploded you're saying that everything started from a cell fine let's just say we agree everything started from a cell one cell went through meiosis went through mitosis became you no problem fine where did the cell come from came from the explosion what exploded what exploded the cell so where did the cell come from no it wasn't a cell that exploded the cell was the outcome of the explosion so what exploded exactly all there's a bunch of stuff so it wasn't a cell that started everything something else started everything that that explosion yeah exactly now you're getting it what exploded what's the first cause that exploded what no you don't understand it was just over a long period of time fine long time long time let's just say it's a zillion years no problem time time is not a factor what exploded what exploded exactly to make up the first cell or was it the first cell that exploded either way it's the same exact question where this first cause came from and you know what the answer is they don't know why the only thing that would explain first cause is the Torah which is God you can call whatever you want but that's what the Torah is so you're saying that the first cause we don't know but in reality there's only one answer that would fit which is a Divine being of some kind a superpower and that superpower by definition is not subject to the rules of the creation because if he subject to the rules of the creation then he is a creation himself and then you go back to the same question and say well where did that come from so you're going to end up in the same exact conclusion of where's the first cause so a by definition the first cause is not subject to the same rules of the creation is not subject to time is not subject to space guess what you're defining God you may want to call it something else but you're defining the god of Israel and that's what the first 150 pages of the book Duty of the heart describes how it is impossible to be intellectually honest and an atheist after reading these Pages why simple all of the different things that you want to say that could happen would happen always arrive at a first cause call it whatever you want to call it we call the god of Israel so the beautiful part is is that since this first cause since this is not only not subject to the rules of his creation not subject to the time and space of his creation not subject to anything of his creation is superior to his creation then needless to say since the creation knows some information so does the Creator that's a safe assumption that's a given if the creation itself knows that if I write a book of instructions for building something that people can follow this book is going to be Paramount to the actual creation itself why because if I just create something and there's no book that's going to go along with it people can get my invention and they're not going to know how to use it so the book itself is in essence even more important than the creation itself why because if I don't know what to do with this creation I may think it's a ball I may think it's a weapon I may think it's food I may think it's a chair I may think it's whatever it is because I don't know what it is but if you give me instructions then I'll know what it is the creation knows this that's why everything comes with instructions I had a some upgrades to my setup in my office recently so I had to buy some new stuff and guess what the mouse little mouse little mouse do you need to move the computer it came with instructions I tell somebody said well I used the mouse before well don't they know that they know but you didn't use our Mouse and our Mouse has instructions okay fine I got a speaker speaker for the system now I've used speakers before I've been using speakers for decades but guess what the speaker came with instructions now what would you need me to know other than just put it this thing into this hole it came with instructions why just in case you never used a speaker just in case you didn't use this speaker this speaker has to come with instructions and every little piece of equipment has to come with instructions why every manufacturer that's in essence the creation knows that his creation must carry instructions in order for the users the consumers to know how to use this product so if the creation knows this it's safe to believe so does the Creator the creator that created this entire creation we call the world we call Mankind we call Society civilization all of it is the Creator's creation regardless of how you and what you believe started at all obviously this superpower that we call Hashem we call hasem means the name because the name is so holy we don't just say it outside of saying verses or saying a uh a prayer means Blessed Be he he knows that in order for his creation to know what to do in this world and how to do it he had to give instructions those instructions were given to millions of us all at the same time at Mount saai and nobody body around the world refuted it including the enemies of Amal and the Canaanites nobody refuted it in fact no one refuted it for over a thousand years no one refuted it when the New Testament that's also we call false Testament came to the world nearly 2,000 years ago didn't refute what happened in Mount son when the Islam Quran came 1,400 years ago didn't refute what happened at Mount Si everyone agrees that we all got all of the Jewish people got a divine revelation by the Creator may his name be blessed Millions of us at the same time had divine revelation seeing and hearing his voice we got the instructions written instructions oral instructions of how to conduct ourselves in this world how to live in this world the secrets of Life the purpose of life everything you need to know is all there so now for all of these thousands upon thousands of years this has been readily available to all of us over 3,000 years now of course along the way as I said there's been all types of Heretics aim idolators and simply enemies of the Holy Torah of the instruction said that have come along that say all you know they all say something similar the original is Holy the original is true but something has changed along the way either there is a new addition even though there was no new divine revelation you would think if there's a new addition then the new addition would be no less spectacular than the first one but that wasn't the case furthermore they say no it wasn't a new addition it was just added added to it so again where's the divine revelation where's the proof of this they don't have no problem so the new addition the continuation whether it's Quran New Testament whatever you say it must agree with the original because we all agree that the original is true and it was true it is true and everyone agreed that it was true you don't agree that it stopped that it was true until you your point so that means that if you're a continuation you have to agree with it not contradict it so how come in our book it says 70 people came down to Egypt with yobu in your book it says 75 how come it says that in our book that ham and lived over a thousand years separate from each other but the Quran says that they were friends how come it says all types of things in the Torah that are not anywhere near what it says in the New Testament of the Quran why does your new book new religion contradict something that everyone agreed is true until you came along now of course we've had many discussions about this but one thing that we have to cover even further is for people that go into the world of tah and say listen I believe the toah is divine I believe it toah is true and that's great but they still end up in the wrong destination how so they figure that since they're learning tah and they've been learning tah for a year two years 3 years 5 years 10 years however long it is usually it's the ones with less time think they know a lot more than they do and they figure that since they know how to read and since they've read a little bit they figure that their opinion also counts and they could also comment on the Tor they could also interpret the Torah they could also tell you what certain things mean based on their understanding and that's where that's where the arrogance of man brings us downfall and one of the greatest examples of that is actually mentioned here where it says that in the book of Kings schl had a deal had a deal Witham M who is in the book of Kings in chapter 5 in verse number 15 it says that kiram was a king a king of T in English it's tier I don't know how they got to tear but that's the translation andam made a deal with scho how did this deal come along was also friends with schlomo's Father David and he had a deal with David where he would uh give him the uh ships in order to uh and also deliver Cedarwood for David to build the uh his palace with it so he was very good friends with David he was good friends with schlomo he uh made a business deal with schlomo where he gave him the ships you also gave him wood to build the BET mikash sent him a uh message that he wanted to get the wood from him because this Divine wisdom that he has uh is uh tells him that uh he has to get the wood specific wood to build the BET mikdash and the best of that type comes from where has access to and he wants to do the business with them and they do business and pays him an extraordinary amount of money he literally gives them a city of gold where even the floor is gold since he knew how to mine how to get gold he even had different types of gold that doesn't exist in the world today uh one piece of gold the says was gold that breeds gold meaning you take one bar of gold you put in a drawer the next day it has two bars of gold it gives birth to new gold so SCH didn't have just the traditional gold of today he had different types of gold endless supply of gold so he was able to pay huge amounts of gold toam andam became extraordinarily wealthy from this where does come from now if a person just looks at it to say listen K was a king but if you look at the commentators and you see that kiram wasn't just a king of that time K was over a thousand years old in fact he was probably closer to 1500 I think when he died where do we hear about the first time in the Book of Genesis in chapter 38 we hear that the story of Yuda where it says it was at that time that Yuda went down from his brothers and turned away towards the adullamite man whose name was here we see that is same person and he was friends with Yuda the great great great great grandfather of David only thing is he lived nearly a thousand years before this he was friends he was friends with Yuda the tribe of yah the uh the father of the tribe of Yuda which is Yuda himself the son of yob and he was in the involved in the whole story with Tamar and he was friends with Yuda and because he was a good friend of Yuda Hashem blessed him with longev ity he was a righteous person and hasem blessed him with longevity he literally lived over a thousand years so now when a person lives over a thousand years obviously acquires an extraordinary amount of experience and wisdom he has literally an endless amount of time to learn he's surrounded by good people smart people righteous people y David schl so obviously he himself becomes a genius he himself becomes extraordinarily wise has more experience than everybody else combined and now he becomes extraordinarily wealthy so you would think this righteous person surrounded by wisdom surrounded by righteous people this guy he should be mashiah if anything wrong why the pride of man leads to his downfall although he was righteous for a long time and he was rewarded handsomely by aadh with good friends with good long long life like the times of even more than the times of Noah at this point is still on his righteous path and he does business with but shortly after this when acquires an extraordinary amount of wealth from these deals decides to build himself a palace unlike any other a palace that resembles the knowledge that he's acquired what knowledge knowledge from a tah what Knowledge from the tah he heard from the sages throughout all all of this thousand plus years that at Mount sa opened up the heavens and showed am Isel the seven Heavens seven levels each one separated from each other by 500 years how am was able to see all of it obviously it's all prophetic obviously they were all given Supernatural powers to see all of it in order to ultimately we show them that he is the only God that there's nothing else above it all there's nothing else but Hashem and even the prophecy that's shown at the end of last week's parasa that there's not much commentary on which is at the end of last week's it says thatu the elders they saw God what do you mean they saw God he doesn't have an image he doesn't have the likeness of an image and under his feet feet there is a stone what feet he doesn't have feet so obviously this is all prophetic language each one was given a certain level of Prophecy in their level and the Torah speaks in human language in order for us to understand to a certain extent what we're able to understand but of course it's not what it's literally says there is no image that they saw he's not sitting on something he doesn't have feet but the point being is that aosh showed a prophecy in last week's unlike anything else we've ever imagined and at Mount Si open the seven heavens and each Heaven has its own Beauty its own significance its own purpose and each one is a certain size of thousands of years in size each one is separated by hundreds if not thousands of years from each other eventually getting to the that's bigger than all of combined showed this to at Mount each one is separated with fires and water and and different things now with all of this experience of over a thousand years knowledge of over a thousand years money that would last more than a thousand years he wants to be known as the one that had the most extraordinary Palace because he arrived at a wrong conclusion what's the wrong conclusion if I lived over a thousand years while everybody else died if I've acquired information beyond the Thousand Years while everyone else died if I've acquired enough money to last over a th000 years and I still feel young therefore I'm never going to die therefore I'm God he decided to deify himself and in order to prove his so-called false Divinity he built a palace unlike anything else with extr extraordinary wisdom unlike anything else each level of the palace there was seven levels of the palace each one resembled the knowledge we have about each one of the heavens resembling it separated where you have the ceiling is an ocean the ceiling is an ocean then the higher level the ceiling looks like the heavens then the Higher One the ceiling is like fire each one is separated by things that are in essence Supernatural it's not like he's not putting bricks with pictures on it each one is extraordinary wisdom that he has Acquired and there's no way to get to the seventh level where he is sitting on his throne unless you yourself possess superpowers and he made himself into a God and this all came to a horrible end for him when who sent the prophet hundreds of years after the time of schl nearly 900 years after and said to the prophet go to give him my message how do you get to give him the message what do you give an envelope say there's an email there's a mail from hasem no you have to go meet him face to face yeah but the palace has seven levels and there's no way to go up the uh seven levels that may be a problem for regular people but for the messengers of God there is no problems as soon as gets there he flies in the air all the way to the seventh level of course the shocked face the shocked look On's face was worth a million words and a million uh of that currency of that day and says I have a message from hasem for you the real God the only God and he says says says to when I created the world when I created the Heaven and the earth I knew what I'm creating I knew that one day you're going to come to the world I knew that one day I was going to create you I knew that one day I'm going to give you all types of rewards in this world because of the good things you did but I also knew that you had the inclination to sin I also knew that you will sin I knew the future when I was still creating I know that you're going to deify yourself because of the wisdom that I've given you I knew that you're going to deify yourself because of the lengthy years that I've given you I knew that you're going to deify yourself because of the money that have given you and because I knew you before you even came to this world I decided to create mankind with holes in it in order to remind them that they're human what holes the holes of the digestive system where you consume my beautiful world you take a beautiful Apple a banana or any type of fruit any vegetable any of these precious good smelling Creations that I've created and you consume them in order to live but they don't stay that way once they go into your human body they become waste they become filthy they become smelly they become disgusting and then they ultimately testify to such when they exit your body and I created this digestive system because of you in so many words because of all of the arrogant people that think that they know more than God to think that they know more than the messengers of God the think that they know more than the instructions of God that's why I created the digestive system because as great as you think you are and as much as I've given you that you think you acquired whether it be knowledge or money or otherwise at the end of it all you are reminded each day that you are a human that whatever you consume turns into filth and reminds you of your loneliness of your insignificance of your end and this is why when a person looks into the holy Torah they're supposed to find God and not only fear Him and ultimately fall in love with him but also recognize their own nothingness their own insignificance especially when they have less knowledge of him and his purpose but the more you acquire knowledge of the Torah the more you're supposed to realize how insignificant you are and how much in debt you are to the Creator not how much he owes you or how great you are because you realize the more you learn about Hashem the more you realize that nothing is within your own power the money you have he gave you the skills you have he gave you the possessions you have he gave you the life you have he gives you everything you have he gives you whatever you do is literally inconsequential why because it depends on the power he instills in you so when a person wants to say that there is no God it's not a belief it's not a belief it's simply a denial a denial of an obligation a rejection of reality because as long as you are intellectually honest you're going to ask why and ultimately you will realize that the real answer is beyond your comprehension now when a person learns the truth you would assume that they would arrive at exactly where we have arrived they arrive at the truth they arrive at fear of heaven love of hem confidence in hem but many times unfortunately you see that people break off into new branches of Reform of modernism of all types of things howo same concept as at some point along the way they certainly weren't as blessed Asam they certainly did not have the longevity or the wisdom of but they had the same arrogance as where they thought they know more than the tradition they know more than the experts they know more than the holy sages that dedicated their lives to the Torah and even if they said maybe I don't know more but I know just as much so I can contradict what the rambam says I can disagree what rfo said I could disagree with what the sages said of this time of previous times and in so many words they make themselves into a little mini full of arrogance full of Filth with a horrible end because after this message that sent face to face to and as he flew away knew that his end was near and his end was going to be horrible as AEM sent with clear instructions of what to do the and how to Topp all over his entire Seven Levels Palace and after that cut into little pieces and feed him to the dogs because he did not even deserve a proper burial this is the end of all of those enemies of God or his Messengers because the messengers are representativ of the king himself so what schl is telling us is in essence that he had all of this wisdom he had this Divine wisdom wisdom that allowed him to know the language of the animals the trees the real purpose of animals the real purpose of the way they were made up things that the average person or even an expert would not even know the questions EX exist and despite all of this information that he had this knowledge that he had this wisdom that he had he still chose God in his toah and the same goes for all of the Jewish sages many of which were experts in different fields many of which were extraordinary Geniuses in different fields aside from the whether it was the ston or if we go further back we go to Thea the Aral the ran Rashi the rambaan Shay Aon David mosu all of these great people were all geniuses all possess knowledge well beyond our comprehension and yet they all chose the god of Israel and His holy Torah and all of the same exact rules and a and sins to comply with all of it to follow all of it to live with all of it and to recog recognize that all of it is the will of God whether you understand them or not is irrelevant when you see that so many Geniuses Geniuses Beyond description or definition chose the toah Geniuses Beyond any other Nation Geniuses Beyond any other people Geniuses beyond beyond any other religion all chose the Torah all chose the god of Israel and his Torah and his sages and his rules and his restrictions all chose it they could have chosen otherwise but they chose the Torah not because of making money from it not because of gaining power from it many of them were chased and nearly killed and some actually killed because of their beliefs in the Torah whe is the 10 MERS that were literally murdered in the most vicious heinous ways possible because of their belief in theah but until his dying minute AKA as they were literally peeling his skin from his body he said he said a verse from the hero Israel Hashem is our God is one that's what R AKA said as to peeling his body peeling his skin and then selling the meat in the market same thing happened with the other sages whether they peeled their skin one of them they took the skin and made it into a uh a carpet others they literally tortured in different strange ways burned alive all types of horrible things but every single one of them died with words of Torah in their lips they all chose the Tor all of these Geniuses all of these holy people and SCH says this tah this tah has no falsehood in it and that's why he chose it what about those that were also smart and chose otherwise simple they weren't as smart after all perhaps they possessed knowledge but when a person has bad character traits mainly arrogance the arrogance Mak even the smartest into fools this two will be a rebuke to each and every single one of us that sometimes thinks we're smarter than what we we really are perhaps we can make new rules perhaps we don't have to obey the rules perhaps we don't need the rules this is a rebuke to every single person that thought for even a second why should I keep these rules why should I listen to the rabbi why should I listen to the sages why should I put my head down and be humble fix myself why well now we know why because those that were wiser than you could ever imagine being did the same exact thing and if you are going to go into anything in the world and want to make a right decision the first thing you would look at is the track record of those that did it and those that did it have a great track record and we need to follow that footstep thank you very much for learning with me bless each and every single one of us to go in the footsteps of the Holy sages of am to follow the T and to stay away from the arrogance of and any version of him that is still exists today even if that version is ourselves sometimes when we think we're better than what we really are we'll learn more later this week [Music] asked him what can we do to protect ourselves from he says even if somebody does a nice thing or learns a lot or anything like that it's never compared to bringing one of aem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home one of the beautiful things that we have in our organization is that we have both Torah and because we have our we have our and we also have our K that we do around the world our lectures reach every corner of the world in multiple languages but of course we always want to do even more florid is Adon Elohim Adonai while we have C work that we've done throughout the whole year we also have the Torah that we're constantly producing more and of and last but not least the to feed the poor people in Israel a very special thank you to all our amazing guests who show real alatis by taking the time out of their busy schedule and sharing their ups and downs with us all for the sake one of the big things that we have aside from this campaign you probably see this poster or something similar to it is also we published some of the recent results that we have or at least up to now of 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